2. Wired’s Danger Room has a piece on the U.S. Strategic Command’s use of social networking to gather expertise in support of the shootdown of a dying spy satellite last year. There’s a sentence about “…how social networks helped planners navigate around the national security bureaucracy…” … which leads to …

BusinessWeek has a short but intriguing brief on Cisco’s foray into Saudi Arabia. As a consultant quoted in the piece states, technology companies can be thought leaders in weaving ICT into the development plans of countries like Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the article comments on the competition Cisco faces from the likes of Ericsson and Huawei. Unanswered: how would “thought leadership” differ from Cisco to Huawei to Ericsson, and what would that mean for Saudi Arabia’s positioning in the Internet age?